"The Old Days"

Hello Families!

It is officially the holiday season in room 108!  We finished studying our own families (and made a fantastic class book!), and have started studying what it was like to be part of a pilgrim family in the 1600's, or 'the old days' as the first graders have affectionately labeled the time period.   We've read some great historically accurate books that tell the tales and roles of pilgrim girls and boys.

We wrapped up unit 3 of Everyday Math.  Unit 4 will focus on standard and nonstandard units of measurement, more frames and arrows, number stories, telling time, and solving addition facts.

In readers' workshop we are spying on the characters in our books to learn about their likes, dislikes, thoughts, and feelings.

In writers' workshop, we're working on making our realistic fiction stories come to life with action, dialogue, feelings, thoughts, and sparkle words!

We are in the midst of the annual Rowe School Food Drive!  The Smart Owls made a goal to fill our entire graph (60 items), and have happily surpassed that goal!  We will be collecting food through Monday 11/24.